Bommel

/[ˈbɔml̩]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#65,056

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Bommel is aGermannoun. It means: Ball aus zusammengeknoteten Wollfäden, wie er zur Verzierung an Kleidungsstücke angebracht wird Pronounced [ˈbɔml̩].

Key facts for Bommel
PropertyValue
HeadwordBommel
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbɔml̩]
Letters6
Frequency rank#65,056
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Bommel in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Bommel is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɔml̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,056 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ball aus zusammengeknoteten Wollfäden, wie er zur Verzierung an Kleidungsstücke angebracht wird".

No misspelling variants are generated for Bommel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Bommel, spelled B-O-M-M-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ball aus zusammengeknoteten Wollfäden, wie er zur Verzierung an Kleidungsstücke angebracht wird

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #65,056 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bommel"?
"Bommel" is spelled B-O-M-M-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbɔml̩].
What does "Bommel" mean?
As a noun, "Bommel" means: Ball aus zusammengeknoteten Wollfäden, wie er zur Verzierung an Kleidungsstücke angebracht wird
How do you pronounce "Bommel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bommel" is [ˈbɔml̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Bommel" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.